Museum Studies Program Blog
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MSP17 trip to Chicago
In October 2017 the group traveled to Chicago for a few days to visit some museums. Here are some highlights.
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MSP16 trip to Chicago
In October 2016 the group traveled to Chicago for a few days to visit some museums. Here are some highlights.
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MSP’ers at The Henry Ford
MSP current students (Sarah McLusky and Lauren Stamm) and alumni (Caroline Braden) work in various capacities at The Henry Ford.
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Detroit workshop April 15 – New Voices and Detroit Museums: From Midtown and Beyond.
Friday, April 15 9:30 am – 12:45 pm UM Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium Today, the city of Detroit is once again taking its place at the heart of the United States’ cultural landscape—as a center of creativity, imagination, artistic production and...
March 22 – Museums at Noon presentation
Speaker: Megan Berkobien (PhD candidate, Comparative Literature) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, March 22 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) From Club to Third Space: On the Interrogation and Creation of Community at the Scarab Club, Detroit The presenter will discuss...
March 15 – Museums at Noon presentation
Speaker: Craig Harvey (PhD candidate, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, March 15 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) Locating and Relocating Lugdunum: Collection Management at Lugdunum — Musée et théâtres romains, Lyon This presentation will...
March 12 presentation
“A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums.” March 12 at 6:30 pm UM Museum of Art auditorium This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture...
March 1 – Interpreting Objects and Exhibitions at the National Museum of Eritrea
Speaker: Timnet Gedar (PhD candidate, History) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, March 1 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) The presenter weaves together a history of the Eritrean war for independence with the practical work of writing object labels and exhibit...
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“File under fascinating”
“Humanities scholars are interested in how people organized information in the past because this tells us about their habits of mind—their intellectual world. When we put facts or things in order, we give them meaning and priority. We say: We care about this because...